The Open Market Blog

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/25/2007

Terry’s post on the late, great Hans Sennholz gives a good example of the influence he had on students at Grove City College. It…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 06/22/2007

New York City Lawmakers are all worked up about garbage. It should be simple to collect and dispose of waste, even in a big city.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/22/2007

The Senate will soon vote on the card-check organizing mandate perversely known as the “Employee Free Choice Act.” This law would allow unions to circumvent…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/22/2007

Great farm subsidy database — now updated — maintained by EWG using USDA and other government data. Here’s just one example: a map of…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/22/2007

Talks broke down among a group of four countries — the U.S., the EU, India, and Brazil — to move forward on the WTO…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/20/2007

Just came across this article on income inequality by Nobel Prize economist Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy.  It’s relevant to my post earlier…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/20/2007

A new OECD report that looks at the effects of globalization on employment points out that while technological change is a major driver in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/20/2007

A House agriculture subcommittee yesterday recommended extending the 2002 Farm Bill’s commodity programs instead of reforming the massive taxpayer- and consumer-funded…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 06/19/2007

A recent CNN investigative effort shows–surprise, surprise–that the Democrats haven’t kept their promise to back off on earmarking. But I think that earmarks also…

• By: Hans Bader
• 06/19/2007

Members of Congress such as Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) recently went on the “Food Stamp Challenge,” in which they limit their spending on food to what…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/19/2007

Saw that the previously banned alcoholic beverage absinthe is now being sold by a New York liquor store at about $60 a bottle.

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 06/19/2007

Fran, you make a very good point. The big problem, as many of us at CEI have discussed, has been our nation’s approach and…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 06/18/2007

I just went across the street from CEI’s offices to pick up some more pairs of eyeglasses. Amidst a generally dysfunctional health care system, the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/18/2007

Lots of articles on trade issues today — and most of them are bleak in terms of trade liberalization. Instead, reporters are focusing on the…